Horace Drummond

Horace Drummond (23 June 1868-8 October 1940) was a Major in the Royal Irish Regiment of the British Army during World War I.

Biography
Horace Drummond was born in Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland in 1868 to a Protestant Ulster Scots family, and he served in the British Army's Royal Irish Regiment during the Mahdist War and the Boer War, rising through the ranks. Drummond was a Lieutenant when World War I broke out, commanding a squad of Highlanders in the British Army on the Western Front. In 1916, he was promoted to Major, and he led his men into battle gallantly. Drummond retired from the army after the war, and he died in Belfast in 1940.